Topic: News
Samstag, 13. November 2004
u2.com: Incomplete versions of the new album turned up online at the weekend – thanks to the help of fans, many have now come down. [
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Donnerstag, 11. November 2004
icnetwork.co.uk: Music legend Bono has put his foot down with his Band Aid 20 peers - to stop them pinching his famous line.
‘That’s my line and I’m doing it – so the rest of you can f*** off.’ That settled it!”
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‘That’s my line and I’m doing it – so the rest of you can f*** off.’ That settled it!”
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u2.com: The band will be all over the UK’s BBC Radio 1 next week – and playing live to a very select group of competition winners for a radio broadcast from the recording studios. [ more]
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Mittwoch, 10. November 2004
u2.com: ‘Classic’, ‘Masterstroke’, ‘Breathtakingly modern’, ‘Brilliant’. NME thinks the new record is quite good! [ more]
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Sonntag, 7. November 2004
rollingstone.com: For two weeks before MTV debuted U2's video for the new single "Vertigo," fans had a chance to see the band perform the song on TV -- in an iPod commercial.
The members of U2 are passionate proponents of Apple's iPod -- "It's the most interesting art object since the electric guitar in terms of music," says Bono -- but the band's new partnership with Apple Computer still qualifies as a surprise. In their twenty-five-year history, U2 have never licensed their music for commercial use or even accepted tour sponsorship. [ more]
The members of U2 are passionate proponents of Apple's iPod -- "It's the most interesting art object since the electric guitar in terms of music," says Bono -- but the band's new partnership with Apple Computer still qualifies as a surprise. In their twenty-five-year history, U2 have never licensed their music for commercial use or even accepted tour sponsorship. [
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rockdirt.com: U2 singer Bono and his wife Alison Hewson celebrated at Disneyland in Anaheim, California after some of the band's album lyrics intended for their 'October' disc, which were robbed in 1981 in Portland, Oregon, were recently recovered.
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Freitag, 5. November 2004
u2.com: The Sunday Times in the UK carries a monster U2 feature this weekend, great reading in the countdown to the album release. [ more]
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newsonline.com.au: The man who stole U2 singer Bono's lyrics said he gave them back because they were not good enough to sell to anyone.
"None of them made sense," Irish bandit Gerry O'Dowd said.
Mr O'Dowd said he had tried for 23 years to pass them off as his own and had entered them in a lot of poetry awards and had never won anything.
"I thought I would become rich, you know, like Bono," Mr O'Dowd said.
But Bono said he would use them on U2's next album and thanked Mr O'Dowd for giving them back. [ more]
"None of them made sense," Irish bandit Gerry O'Dowd said.
Mr O'Dowd said he had tried for 23 years to pass them off as his own and had entered them in a lot of poetry awards and had never won anything.
"I thought I would become rich, you know, like Bono," Mr O'Dowd said.
But Bono said he would use them on U2's next album and thanked Mr O'Dowd for giving them back. [
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billboard.com: To accompany its upcoming album, U2 is planning a coordinated blitz that will visit touch down on U.S. television networks. Having already seen and heard in a frequently aired ad for Apple's iPod, the Irish rock act is planning a live appearance on "Saturday Night Live" and will have songs included on at least one popular drama. [ more]
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